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 The President: Moral Leadership
 Increase slavery’s visibility on the global agenda as a key human rights violation. Advance anti-slavery initiatives
at the G-8, World Bank and other international institutions.
Strengthen America’s anti-slavery efforts through coordination directly from the White House, to avoid individual departments working without presidential coordination.
Combat the core causes of trafficking and slavery worldwide, such as poverty, vulnerability—especially of women, weak governance and corruption. Bring business, labor and civil society together to improve corporate social responsibility and remove slave-tainted goods from global trade and corporate supply chains. Secretary of State: Global Engagement 
Help countries on the International Trafficking Watch List to strengthen their efforts to prevent and prosecute slavery. Provide economic development assistance to countries where the poor are vulnerable to trafficking  and slavery. Urge the United Nations to establish an anti-slavery office accountable to the Secretary General, to coordinate UN agencies. Attorney General: Tough Enforcement
Expand the Human Trafficking Protection Unit, ensure that slavery survivors receive social services and are not immediately deported. Use tax and labor laws to prosecute slave owners in cases where anti-trafficking statutes are hard to enforce. Exercise the newly-granted authority to prosecute Americans who commit slavery offenses outside US borders. Train state and local authorities to spot slavery and prosecute traffickers. Congress: The Freedom Dividend 
Increase oversight of government contractors to ensure that American tax dollars are productively spent and don’t go to companies that profiteer through slavery. Fund the Human Trafficking and Smuggling Center to coordinate federal data gathering, and to create an independent center of expertise and analysis on the extent and impact of slavery today and the economic benefits of eradicating slavery in our lifetime. Fully fund and implement initiatives contained in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act passed in 2008.
Fighting Slavery brings Americans Together 
FTS President Kevin Bales joins other activists and Bush administration officials for the TVPRA bill signing in December.
The fight to end slavery has broad bipartisan support. The outgoing Congress and President made sure they took action before leaving office. The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 strengthens America’s anti-slavery laws:
A “slavery lens” that ensures that economic, humanitarian and poverty alleviation assistance is consistent with anti-trafficking goals
Increased support services and visa opportunities for US survivors of slavery, and tougher criminal penalties for traffickers and foreign recruiters. Expanded slavery research and an investigation of federal contractors to ensure they aren’t engaged in trafficking.
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